Yeast Starter Blew Its Top

[Iowa Brewer]

Hey all,
Made a 1.75 liter starter for a 10.75gal Chocolate Oatmeal Stout last night, which used 2 packs Omega-004 and 5.92oz DME. Done similar several times, but, unlike those times, I woke this morning to the foil top laying next to the my 2k ml flask, completely uncovered.

My hopeful side tells me, "That outward pressure may have kept it safe."
My logical side tells me, "Not worth ruining 26.5 lbs of grains, hops, etc, order a 5k ml erlenmeyer flask and live to brew another day."

Thoughts?

 

[GoodTruble]

More than 90% likely it's fine, but yeah, probably don't want to run that 10% chance. Time to just do another starter?

 

[DBhomebrew]

I'd pitch it. YMMV

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I‘d use a sanitized spoon to clear the neck
of the flask of krausen and use it.

 

[hottpeper13]

Saying not to use it is like inferring the beer from a Yorkshire square should be dumped. This happened to me once(yeah right!) I pitched and no worries.

 

[tracer bullet]

I‘d use a sanitized spoon to clear the neck of the flask of krausen and use it.

I think this is what I'd do too. Anything "bad" is probably on top, if present at all.

Saying not to use it is like inferring the beer from a Yorkshire square should be dumped. This happened to me once(yeah right!) I pitched and no worries.

Tend to agree but then again I dumped out 5 gallons of recently fermented Russian Imperial Stout that had soured. I had incredibly good cleaning and sanitation going on, including a new valve in the fermenter just to be sure on that one. Can't say for sure but guessing some wild yeast entered the equation, one that the other yeast didn't take over for, one that could eat up the dextrins or whatever. But I did brew in the garage, so who knows how much worse that might be than in the house.

 

[Iowa Brewer]

More than 90% likely it's fine, but yeah, probably don't want to run that 10% chance. Time to just do another starter?

Luckily there is, and that's what I think I'm going to do... *Garrrrgh!*

 

[Iowa Brewer]

I‘d use a sanitized spoon to clear the neck
of the flask of krausen and use it.

That's a good idea. Wish I knew when it blew it's top. Sometime between 10pm and 8am... Think I'm going to start over

 

[day_trippr]

One word: FermCap.
More words: 2-3 drops keeps my stirred starters from 'sploding...

Cheers!

 

[Iowa Brewer]

One word: FermCap.
More words: 2-3 drops keeps my stirred starters from 'sploding...

Cheers!

Good idea, day-Trippr. One drop for 2L starter?

 

[day_trippr]

Seems right. I use 3 drops for my 5 liter starters...

Cheers!

 

[apache_brew]

Seems right. I use 3 drops for my 5 liter starters...

Cheers!

That stuff is magical. Use it my starter flask, boil kettle, and fermenter to eliminate overflows in all of them.